History

I've had a love-hate relationship with the concept of history and those that exploit it's references. While its lessons are invaluable, its underlining message is a manner of indoctrinating those that it teaches. Take a student from Anywhere: he grows up learning his national history, its 'values' and its position in the world. Then take a student from anywhere else in the world and do the same thing. History has now formed two individuals based on their birth location and pits them against each other with 'cultural pride'. Then, in juxtaposition for each individual, we offer opportunity by stating "free will". With such refinement against obvious contradiction, the free will then becomes open to suggestion. "If I am free, then I have a right to decide what I believe in." But did you ever? Your "free will" is programmed now. What is your freedom from? Oppression from governments? That's physical. The damage is routed in your education - what you know, what you perceive and what you hope to accomplish. The juxtaposition of freedom and history is to establish you as a national. I grew up with you, you grew up with us, we grew up together - let's preserve that. But what is it you defend? Your land, your ideas, your customs? They aren't yours. They belong to history.

HV